Highfields

Just a short drive north of Toowoomba along the New England Highway is Highfields, a blooming community with many unique and specialised art and craft stores. Beautiful parks, delightful walking tracks, lovely cafes and an historic village make this a lovely spot to spend a day or two.

With breathtaking views to the Bunya Mountains and a diverse range of local plants, the 4.7 hectare Peacehaven Botanic Park is one of the most outstanding public gardens on the Downs. Nearby Davidson Arboretum is another public park bequeathed to the people with over 400 varieties of temperate deciduous trees, including some very rare species. It is a wonderful spectacle of autumn colouring in May/June.

At Highfields Pioneer Village discover a rare and unusual collection of vintage machinery, a fully operational blacksmith shop and a collection of restored antique radios. Join in the annual Easter Vintage Festival held here over three days.

Within close proximity along the highway you'll find local crafts and good coffee at Abbie Lane Arts and Craft Village, the Village Green where the famous Chocolate Cottage is located, Jacaranda Manor, and Danish Flower Art.

Mao’s Last Dancer Li Cunxin has a life-long love of kites, creating and flying them as a child in rare and precious moments with his father.
Kites became a metaphor for Li’s life, as his career soared beyond the impoverished commune of his childhood to the ballet stages of the world.

Discover one man’s incredible journey from poverty to world-famous artist in this exclusive Museum of Brisbane exhibition. Features never-before-seen interviews, performance footage and personal artefacts in an intimate portrait of a contemporary Australian icon.

Artist Anne Scott Wilson draws on 30 years of live performance and exhibitions to explore the relationship between movement and meaning. Her works meditate on the years of strenuous practice and endurance dancers undertake relative to their brief moments of glory as a performer.

Moonlight Cinema is Australia’s favourite and largest outdoor cinema. Watch advance screenings, summer blockbusters and cult classics under the stars in one of Brisbane's most iconic inner-city green spaces all summer long.

Come along every Sunday morning and enjoy fun and engaging story-telling sessions with their talented Museum team, dance to your own rhythm as part of Anne Scott Wilson’s exhibition Every Day I Wait, create your own kite as part of the inspiring Kite Wishes Project at their MoB Maker station and beat the crowds to their family-friendly summer show Mao’s Last Dancer the exhibition.

Start your morning with a fresh coffee, taste the delicious treats, enjoy the live entertainment and pick up your fresh produce to take home at the Eagle Farm Markets.
The Eagle Farm Markets have everything, from your essential fruit and vegetables, to gourmet delights.

Combining Aboriginal cultural knowledge with contemporary gestural motifs, [MIS]CONCEIVE’s fusion of hip-hop, physical percussion and rhythmic cultural pattern is expressive and immediate.
Through the mash-up of traditional and contemporary styles that simultaneously reject, reveal and re-educate modern (mis)understandings of Indigenity, [MIS]CONCEIVE argues that ‘knowledge’ does not equal comprehension.

String Symphony is a large-scale, interactive performance installation that uses puppetry to explore connection, community and collaboration.
Hand-woven using more than one kilometre of rope, the giant illuminated puppet is waiting to be brought to life.

The Australian Performing Arts Market (APAM) is Australia's leading internationally focused industry event for contemporary performing arts.
Established in 1994 by the Australia Council for the Arts, the Australian Government’s arts funding and advisory body, APAM showcases and promotes a thriving, diverse national performing arts sector, and stimulates the ongoing dialogue, collaboration and exchange between local artists and producers and their international counterparts to grow the export of Australian performance.

Groove Therapy beginner classes are the judgement free dance class space where there is no mirror and they dim the lights. They don’t make you perform for anyone. It’s completely unpretentious and it's all about vibing within a community, not a scene.

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